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half-awake

British  

adjective

  1. not fully awake

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The next day I would stumble into the clinic half-awake, and scientists would stick electrodes on my scalp.

From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2022

"I was drifting in that half-asleep, half-awake place when I sensed a presence in the room," she wrote in her book.

From Fox News ● Jan. 24, 2022

Since any half-awake journalist would know that our West End Avenue address was no office building, we thought putting "Suite 7C" with that address on FAIR's stationery was an open joke, rather than a lie.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2021

So, I’ve given up on efforts to propel my half-awake self to the gym before dawn.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2017

I lock eyes with a half-awake Paloma, who regards my approach with detached interest.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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